Online173.237.43.23:20000checked 10m ago
The Rust Bucket
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC4d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC8d ago | 3 | held half | 4.1 days | 3 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageRules and settings
Which rules govern The Rust Bucket?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Bucket. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is used on The Rust Bucket?
The game generates a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069 for The Rust Bucket. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags, lists and filters
Where can The Rust Bucket be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that The Rust Bucket fits are: Best Rust PvE servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
What is the meaning of the tags on The Rust Bucket?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Rust Bucket: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): It runs on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.
Player numbers
How many players does The Rust Bucket have?
With 5 slots, The Rust Bucket has 0 players at the moment. The average player count for the last seven days is 0, and the highest point was 3. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, The Rust Bucket ranks #5,531 and is in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
About the server
What is the online status and reliability of The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 9 hours ago. It was up 98% of the time over the last 7 full days, 165 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 4 October 2026.
What Rust version is used on The Rust Bucket?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Where can you find The Rust Bucket?
A region is not published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Is The Rust Bucket lag-free?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 164 server fps, with a low of 111. The maximum number of entities it carried was 50,675, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Peak memory use was 3,815 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
What happens on The Rust Bucket when a wipe occurs?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 3 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Half that peak was maintained until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
How often does The Rust Bucket wipe?
With so few of The Rust Bucket's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The present world dates from 4 days 11 hours ago.
Connect to the server
What steps are needed to join The Rust Bucket?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167398
ptrak
$r?
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.